1992 Possible DDR?

The first picture wasnt very good with the letter N. I'm still learning as far as Double dies go. I'm firmiliar with all other errors but Double dies are the most complicated for me. Heres another picture with a little more detail of the N. By the way Coppercoins I enjoyed looking at your site it was very helpful.

Okay, a few things..

1. What you are looking at is not a doubled die. I don't know exactly what it is that you see as different, but it looks pretty much just like tens of thousands of coins I've seen in the past - so it's really hard for me to figure out what you're seeing without a detailed explanation.

2. The term is 'doubled die' -- note the letter 'd' at the end of the first word. It's not 'double die'. Just sematics, but you came here for help, and I'm helping. Not using the 'd' at the end of the first word SCREAMS 'noob' - most rookies make this same mistake. If you really think of it, the term describes the design on the die as having been 'doubled' during the process of creating the die. So it just makes sense to call them 'doubled' - it's not 'two dies' (double), but one die with a 'doubled' design.

3. Doubled dies are not error coins - the are die varieties. These are two completely different things just as cars and motorcycles are both vehicles, but they are otherwise completely different. Die varieties and errors both describe coins with faults, but die varieties are a specifically catalogable subset of coins where the oddity occurred to the die before it was ever placed on the press to mint its first coin. If you made the die, then looked at it closely, you could see the doubling on the die before it ever made a single coin.

Errors are a huge hodge-podge of problems that occur usually during the striking of coins, and most of the time don't have anything to do with the design on the die. There are exceptions, but this is generally the case. All examples of off-center strikes, lamination peels, saddle strikes, wrong metal/planchet coins, incomplete planchet coins, etc. are examples of errors.

Anyhow, doubled dies, repunched dates, repunched mintmarks, over dates, and over mintmarks are all included in the category 'die varieties'.

You might think this is just a matter of sematics, but in reality there are a large number of collectors who collect one or the other (die varieties or errors) but not both. I, for instance, put about 95% of my collecting information energy into die varieties and could realistically give a hoot less about errors.

Just a fun little anecdote...

If you had a 1995 doubled die with a 10% curved clip you would have a die variety/error coin. Because the two things described are in completely different numismatic categories, both categories would be used when describing the coin. It's not "two errors on one coin" but a "die variety AND error on one coin".

I guarantee you that if you had one of these and wanted to sell it on ebay for the best return possible, you'd be a fool not to use both terms in describing it.

These are quite scarce.

You didnt need to be so harsh lol. I'm still learning as far as DIE VARIETIES go then. I put the coin on here to understand what it is now I do and thank you for that.

It was a joke :). Was hoping I had something lol.

I was glad he could help me out. He definitely has alot of pictures on his coppercoins site. It was very educational for me.